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Rachel McAdams (born October 7, 1978) is
a Canadian actress. She is noted for her Hollywood film
performances of Mean Girls (2004), The Notebook (2004)
and Wedding Crashers (2005), which all proved to be
successful at movie theaters.
Early life: Rachel McAdams was born in London,
Ontario and grew up in nearby St. Thomas. Her father,
Lance, is a truck driver, and her mother, Sandra, is a
nurse. She has a younger brother, Daniel, and a younger
half-sister, Kayleen.
At the age of four, she took up competitive figure
skating. She took up acting at age thirteen at a summer
theater camp. When the company extended to a year-round
company, she was invited to continue with them. She
attended Central Elgin Collegiate Institute in St.
Thomas from grade nine to OAC and starred in the
Award-winning student production I Live in a Little
Town. Later she graduated from York University in
Toronto with Honours and a BFA degree in Theatre.
During her senior year at York, she
played a child in The Piper – a workshop led by a
creative team from Toronto's Necessary Angel Theatre
Company. She also attended Original Kids Theatre Company
in London, Ontario, as well as David Rothenberg's
on-camera acting class in Toronto with fellow actors
Scott Speedman, Kenneth Mitchell, Polly Shannon and
David Sutcliffe.
Career: McAdams had a large role in the film The
Hot Chick, alongside Rob Schneider, but her career
really took off when she starred as Regina George, the
"queen-bee" in 2004's Mean Girls. McAdams was
told to partly model the character of Regina George
after Alec Baldwin's performance in Glengarry Glen Ross
(1992).
McAdams had previously appeared in the Canadian
television series Slings and Arrows, alongside Paul
Gross. She played a main role in the first season, but
due to her rising stardom was written out of the second
season, appearing in only the first episode.
She followed Mean Girls with the film adaptation of
Nicholas Sparks' novel The Notebook, alongside Ryan
Gosling, with whom she would later begin an off-screen
romance.
In 2005, she played Owen Wilson's love interest in
Wedding Crashers and then starred in the suspense
thriller Red Eye as Lisa Reisert. She played a young
woman held captive aboard a red-eye flight by
criminal-for-hire and assassin Jackson Rippner (Cillian
Murphy). Her most recent role was in the comedy The
Family Stone where she starred in an ensemble cast
alongside Diane Keaton, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Jessica
Parker, Dermot Mulroney, Luke Wilson, Brian J. White and
Claire Danes.
Rachel's career slowed down in 2006. She was originally
signed on as the female lead in The Last Kiss but had to
drop out due to scheduling conflicts, and the role was
given to Jacinda Barrett. McAdams was anxious to sign on
to a script which was "creative" and
"different." It was said that Rachel turned
down Anne Hathaway's role in The Devil Wears Prada, a
role in Mission: Impossible III, as well as the bond
girl "Vesper Lynd" in the much anticipated
Bond film Casino Royale, all three were box-office smash
hits. [2] McAdams eventually returned to acting to do
the independent-drama Married Life (which has a limited
release date set for November 9, 2007).
Rachel was also rumored to be set to star as the love
interest in Iron Man and Katie Holmes's replacement in
The Dark Knight as well as playing the role of sexy,
femme fatale Agent 99 in Get Smart. However, McAdams
stated in an interview in May 2006 that she had no
interest to do a big-budget super-hero/action adaptation
because of various reasons one including that she had
never really taken interest in a film of that sort and
that she wanted to sign on to a film mainly because she
wanted to do it, not because the salary was high. It was
later confirmed that she was offered all three of the
roles but politely turned them down. The roles were
later taken over by Gwyneth Paltrow (Iron Man), Anne
Hathaway (Get Smart), and the role of "Rachel
Dawes" in The Dark Knight is rumored to have Maggie
Gyllenhaal play the part.
Despite having appeared nude and/or topless in few of
her movie scenes, McAdams abruptly opted out of a cover
shoot for Vanity Fair alongside two other young
Hollywood actresses Scarlett Johansson and Keira
Knightley, upon finding out it was to be nude[2]. Tom
Ford, artistic director for the cover, instead appeared
with them. When McAdams appeared on set and discovered
it was nude, she politely declined, according to
Knightley.
Thin, blonde, and possessing the sort of stylish,
model-esque good looks that wouldn't be out of place in
the glossy pages of Vogue, actress Rachel McAdams got
her start on Canadian television before graduating to
Hollywood features.
Though McAdams' early screen roles found her
specializing in the bitchy teen princess to maximum
effect, closer inspection reveals a skilled dramatic
actress who no doubt has the talent to move beyond the
high-school trappings of such comedies as The Hot Chick
and Mean Girls.
Born to a truck driver and a nurse in London, Ontario,
Canada, McAdams warmed to the spotlight early on by
taking up competitive skating at just four years old.
Though she would remain on the ice well into her teens,
the toll of constant competition eventually frazzled her
nerves, and she soon began gravitating toward the stage.
Beginning in summer theater camp at the age of 13, the
burgeoning actress' smooth handling of Shakespeare
eventually led her to enroll in theater studies at York
University. In the years that followed, McAdams' comfort
on the stage translated exceptionally well to the
screen, and a role as a bulimic teen in the popular
Disney series The Famous Jett Jackson found the rising
starlet making an impressive small-screen debut.
Supporting roles in such television series as Shotgun
Love Dolls and made-for-TV features such as Guilt by
Association were quick to follow. After climbing the
credits to make her feature debut in My Name is Tanino,
McAdams was nominated for a Genie award (the Canadian
equivalent of an Oscar) for her performance in 2002's
Perfect Pie.
The film, which cast her as a small-town girl whose best
friend makes the big time by becoming a celebrated opera
singer, provided McAdams with her breakout role, and she
soon set her sights on Hollywood.
Her bags packed for the trip west and stars shining in
her eyes, the talented McAdams soon caught the eyes of
studio heavies and was cast as a popular but
excruciatingly cruel high-school teen who learns a hard
lesson in The Hot Chick.
McAdams made a move to weekly television in 2003 with a
supporting role in Slings and Arrows before once again
returning to torment the unpopular crowd in 2004's Mean
Girls. A big-screen adaptation of Rosalind Wiseman's
popular book Queen Bees and Wannabes, the film was also
notable as the screenwriting debut of Saturday Night
Live writer/cast member Tina Fey.
Moving away from the cruel halls of high school, McAdams
next appeared opposite Ryan Gosling in The Notebook, the
feature adaptation of author Nicholas Sparks'
top-selling novel. A romantic drama concerning a young
couple separated by war, The Notebook found McAdams in a
notably more sympathetic role.
Personal life: McAdams currently lives in
Toronto. She is a former vegetarian, and is in a
relationship with actor and The Notebook co-star Ryan
Gosling. Both were born in St. Joseph's Hospital in
London, Ontario. Prior to her relationship with Gosling,
she briefly dated playwright Jeff Smeenge and director
T.J. Scott, both of which she had worked with on
projects in her earlier television career.
Awards and achievements: McAdams received popular
acclaim for both roles and was honoured for her work,
most recently a record number of five nominations and
three wins at the MTV Movie Awards in 2005. McAdams beat
competition including Beyoncé Knowles, Jessica Alba,
and Jessica Simpson. She was named #14 on the Maxim
magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list and #17 in the 2006 Hot
100issue. In December 2005, she was #1 on MuchMusic's
"Who To Do: 20 Sexiest Girls" list. McAdams
was also voted the #10 on FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the
World 2005.
McAdams was nominated for a Genie Award, the Canadian
equivalent of the Academy Award, for her role in Perfect
Pie. She was also nominated for the BAFTA's Orange
Rising Star award which acknowledges the new talents in
the acting industry. The award went to James McAvoy.
She hosted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences's 2006 Scientific and Technical Awards. McAdams
received a Civic Award for her contribution to culture
from the city of St. Thomas in 2006. |
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